· January, 2008

Stories about Egypt from January, 2008

Egypt: lawsuit demanding the websites banning is rejected

3 January 2008

Judge Abdel Fattah Mourad, who requested the ban of 51 blogs and websites deemed insulting the state’s dignity and threatening Egypt’s interests, has lost his case. On December 29, 2007, the Administrative Judicial Court rejected the lawsuit and ruled in favor of freedom of speech on the Internet. “Minor victories...